Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST) price on Tuesday, December 24, rose 1.83% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $143.36.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $140.79, moving within a range at $141.02 and $144.16. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.111 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 27.16. Turning to its 52-week performance, $168.67 and $37.77 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, VST moved -11.13% over the past month.
Vistra Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $49.67 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in January. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.87, with its dividend yield at 0.61%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 3.94B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 3.94B and 3.94B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 27.96% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 17.25B, representing a 16.71% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that VST is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
6 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 6 recommend VST as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
VST’s current price about -3.56% and 1.81% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 49.70, while 7-day volatility ratio is 5.17% and 5.09% in the 30-day chart. Further, Vistra Corp (VST) has a beta value of 1.21, and an average true range (ATR) of 7.53. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $134.5, forecast between a low of $125 and high of $141. Looking at the price targets, the low is 12.81% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move 1.65%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a 6.18% jump to $134.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Vistra Corp (NYSE:VST), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 5.07 over the past 10 days and 6.97 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 340.72 million shares.
The 1.50% of Vistra Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 88.45% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 8.3 million on 2024-11-29, giving us a short ratio of 1.33. The data shows that as of 2024-11-29 short interest in Vistra Corp (VST) stood at 283.99998 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 9.64 million registered in 2024-10-31. Current price change has pushed the stock 273.58% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the VST stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
